If you were lucky enough to be at our Friday evening festival concert, you won't have forgotten Allie Daniel's astonishing performance of Britten's Cabaret Songs - without doubt one of the highlights of those three days.
It is really good news, then, that Allie is returning next week with a programme that is slightly different from our normal bill of fare. Prominent in the list of pieces are the kind of songs that Ella Fitzgerald sang during her legendary career: Black Coffee, I've got a crush on you, Misty etc.
Allie opens her concert with Joni Mitchell's A Case of You from her iconic 'Blue' album. I wonder if any of you have seen Allie's pianist, Chris Eldred, in Leicester before with the superb band, Hejira, who recreate the sound of Joni's music?
The concert will end with some of Allie's own songs: in addition to West End success, she records her music under the name Massive Daughter, with a new single released just last Friday.
